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Forest Regeneration and Deer Management
We speak with Peter Smallidge, NYS Extension Forester, about a new idea in forest management: slash walls for managing the deer population.
Lake Ontario Logging: Johnson Forest Management
Log Trucking in the Adirondacks for Half a Century
We spoke with longtime log trucker Jim Reynolds of Thurman, NY about the ins and outs of log trucking in the Adirondacks.
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An Update on Global Hardwood Trade
While the American hardwood sector has managed to hold its own over the past year of global trade, no one predicted the changes that 2020 would bring to the forest products economy. To catch up on the state of international hardwood trade, The Northern Logger podcast spoke with Mike Snow of the American Hardwood Export Council and Dana Cole of the Hardwood Federation.
Kevin Braman: A Vermont Logger
On this month’s Northern Logger podcast, we interviewed Kevin Braman, a logger in Central Vermont who works by himself and uses a chainsaw and skidder to get the job done. We spoke with Braman about his 35 years in the business and what he has learned about caring for the woods and growing good timber.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence in North American Sawmills
Meet Our 2019 NELA Award Winners
COVID-19 unfortunately made it so this year’s Loggers’ Awards Banquet couldn’t be held at our annual Expo in Essex Junction, Vermont. Luckily we were able to talk to our 2019 winners for our Northern Logger podcast!
Rick Hearne on Starting One of the Largest Specialty Lumberyards in the World
Hearne Hardwoods to see their specialty lumbers.
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Can Assisted Migration Help Working Forests Adjust to Climate Change?
It is no secret to anyone in the industry that logging today is not like logging 100 years ago, for many reasons. Lumbermen from years past wouldn’t recognize today’s markets and they wouldn’t recognize today’s equipment lineups. But another aspect of the working forest that would shock an early 20th century logger, were he to find himself in today’s north woods, is the winter logging season. Gone are the days when the ground freezes before Thanksgiving and thaws in May. Today’s loggers are lucky if they can get a good freeze between Christmas and St. Patricks Day. Rather than solid ground, northern loggers face mud, mud, and more mud.
The climate is warming, and quickly. Carbon emissions over the past century have raised global temperatures at a rapid rate. 21st century attempts to reduce global emissions in order to slow climate change have, so far, not been successful. The prospect of a quickly changing climate is a staggering one, especially from the perspective of those who rely on the land to earn their living. Northern silvicultural systems are sensitive to temperature and a change of even a few degrees in winter temperatures affects the ability of species to regenerate. Many who work in the northern woods wonder what will happen to working forests by 2100, when the climate in parts of Maine is projected by scientists to more closely resemble the climate of North Carolina.
Foresters are already thinking about these issues, not as hypotheticals but as realities they’re already seeing on the job. Groups like the Northeastern Institute of Applied Science (NIAC), the Forest Service, the USDA, and the Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change project have begun to actively embrace a handful of climate adaptation strategies, to help land managers plan for an uncertain future. On this month’s episode, we spoke with these foresters about strategies that will help working forests weather climate change.